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\tThe year has come to an end. A lot went on for me. I’ve landed a job after college, worked seven jobs at once, helped run a professional fraternity of over 130 people, joined 9rules, left b5media, met new people, learned new things. It’s been fun. Oh, and if you missed it, I remade a music video. Watch the first minute of this<\/a>, then this<\/a>, then read on…<\/p>\n \t<\/p>\n \tMy site has shown significant improvement and growth. At the beginning of the year I was used to writing shorter posts — they weren’t the highest quality. As time went on I learned what worked best for the site and its readers. I started with 50 subscribers and am now around 250<\/strong>; some obvious growth.<\/p>\n \tAdditionally, I’ve tracked my incoming traffic with Mint<\/a> which has also shown constant growth. I’ve gone from 2,250 unique visitors each month to 4,500. With that said, 2006 brought me 32,950 unique visitors and 74,545 page views<\/strong>. Numbers that still amaze me.<\/p>\n \tAs far as the site goes, last year I wrote 321 posts which received 689 comments. Certainly an accomplishment for my first year of blogging. In the year’s time I’ve served up some decent content which has also earned me first on Google when searching for ‘devin<\/a>‘. I beat out the porn star, politician, and guy who owns devin.com. Man, I’m good…<\/p>\n \tI’ve had a lot of people visit my site for different reasons. My top reason this year was to learn about the FIRO-B<\/a> assessment. Unfortunately there were some issues with the way I presented their material so they kindly (C&D letter) asked me to take it all down.<\/p>\n \tThe second biggest draw was for information about biphasic sleep<\/a>. I’ve been maintaining this nap\/sleep routine since January (I don’t nap much over break though) and I couldn’t be happier. It made for a great discussion during some interviews this year. Oh, and someone linked to me on Wikipedia<\/a> — that was neat to see.<\/p>\n \tA lot of people also arrived here recently to learn about Miss Dewey<\/a>, many other want to know about MySpace<\/a> and why it’s so worthless. In any case, a lot of people have visited for a lot of different reasons and I’m glad my site has proved some worth to them.<\/p>\n \tI started doing a few things this year to help myself get organized, get productive, and get all-around better. This including making todo lists (which turned into calendaring and scheduling), biphasic sleep, working out more and reading more.<\/p>\n \tI think I very well across all fields except the last. I haven’t read nearly as much as I had planned. In fact, I set aside a goal of a book every month. I think I read four new books this year. I intend to resolve that with a better plan. As far as other areas of improvement? I’m not sure what I want to do — I simply want to remedy my previous goal.<\/p>\n \tI hope to make a few changes to allow me to focus more. Here are the major areas of my life in the coming months and what I hope to do across all of them:<\/p>\nStatistics<\/h2>\n
Best of the Year<\/h2>\n
Personal Improvement Plan<\/h2>\n
Future Plans<\/h2>\n
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